Folks often shy away from fancy cheese because it smells like feet. But what if the cheese was actually made from feet—or rather, the bacteria that makes your feet stink? A couple of bio-hacker artists decided to explore that possibility. And it sounds really gross.

On Friday, Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas will showcase their stinky human cheese project at a new exhibition called Grow Your Own… Life After Nature, hosted by Trinity College in Dublin. Their installation is literally a bunch of cheese wheels, each of which was made from bacterial samples pulled from the feet and armpits of different people. The artists hint at our society's obsession with antiscepsis and explain that the "intersection of our interests in smell and microbial communities led us to focus on cheese as a 'model organism.'" It's unclear if samples of the human armpit cheese will be available for the public to sample.

It's important to understand that the ideas being tossed around at this show are pretty conceptual and certainly arty. In a way, many of the projects highlight the absurd and even grotesque things made possible by the latest advances in biology and technology.

"Synthetic biology is a new approach to genetic modification, applying engineering ideals to the complexity of living systems," says lead curator, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. "It's both an evolution and revolution as biology could be transformed into a design material unlike one that we have ever known before: a self-replicating technology that is everything from hardware to software, the factory and product too."